In Celebration of Five Wins from the 67th Primetime Emmys, Amazon Offers Prime Memberships for Just $67
Discount begins this Friday at 12:00 a.m. ET and ends at 11:59 p.m. PT
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(NASDAQ: AMZN)—In celebration of five Emmy wins for Amazon Original
series Transparent at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards, Amazon
today announced that Amazon Prime will be available for just $67. This
one day discount will start on Friday, September 25 at 12:00 a.m. ET and
end at 11:59 p.m. PT. New members can sign up for this limited-time
Prime offer at Amazon.com/TransparentPrime.
On Sunday night, the star of Transparent, Jeffrey Tambor, took
home the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Transparent
creator Jill Soloway took home the trophy for Outstanding Directing for
a Comedy Series. Prime members can watch Transparent at no
additional cost using the Amazon Video app for TVs, connected devices,
phones and tablets, or online at Amazon.com/Transparent.
Transparent is the second Amazon show to become an Emmy winner.
Earlier this year Amazon Original kids series Tumble Leaf took
home five Daytime Emmy wins including Outstanding Preschool Children’s
Animated Program.
“This has been an incredibly exciting year—with the Golden Globes wins
in January and now twelve nominations and five Primetime Emmy wins. We
are thrilled to celebrate Transparent with our customers by
offering a Prime discount,” said Michael Paull, Vice President of
Digital Video for Amazon. “Congratulations again to Jill Soloway,
Jeffrey Tambor and the cast and crew of Transparent for making
such a beautiful show, and to our customers—enjoy!”
Written, directed and executive produced by Emmy-winner and 2013
Sundance Best Director winner Jill Soloway, Transparent is a
10-episode, half-hour novelistic series that explores family, identity,
sex, and love. The series stars Tambor
as Maura, who has spent her life as Mort—the Pfefferman family
patriarch. Also starring Judith
Light (Dallas), Gaby
Hoffmann (Girls), Amy
Landecker (Louie) and Jay
Duplass (Togetherness), Transparent is the no. 1
ranked original series on Prime Video since the show’s launch. Also
proving popular among critics, the show clocked in a near-perfect score
on Rotten Tomatoes with a 98 percent critic rating, and a 91 Metascore
on Metacritic. The second season of Transparent will premiere on
Prime Video on December 4.
Transparent joins an already robust collection of award-winning,
original and popular programming available to Prime members including
Amazon Original Series Hand of God, Bosch, Catastrophe
and Mozart in the Jungle as well as hit series like Sex and
the City, Veep, Girls, The Sopranos, Entourage,
Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Wire. Prime Video also offers
members blockbuster movies such as Transformers: Age of Extinction,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Star
Trek Into Darkness and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, among
others. Prime members have access to a collection of kids shows
including Amazon Original Series Annedroids, Gortimer
Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street and the Annecy, Annie and
multi-Emmy Award-winning Tumble Leaf, as well as popular shows
from Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. including SpongeBob
SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, Team Umizoomi, and
Blue’s Clues.
Prime members can look forward to several new upcoming original series
premiering this year, with the coming-of-age dramedy Red Oaks
premiering on October 9, followed by the much anticipated adaptation of
Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle on November 20, and
season two of Emmy-winning Transparent December 4. Coming in 2016
will be the second seasons of Mozart in the Jungle, Bosch
and romantic comedy, Catastrophe, along with the debut season of The
New Yorker Presents.
About Amazon Video
Amazon Video includes tens of thousands of movies and TV episodes
available on Prime Video at no additional charge to Prime members, as
well as access to hundreds of thousands of titles to buy or rent. Amazon
Video is the only service in the world that brings customers both of
these options in one place.
Amazon Video can be accessed through the Amazon Video app on TVs,
connected devices and mobile devices, or online at Amazon.com/PrimeVideo.
Prime Video titles can also be downloaded for offline enjoyment—the only
subscription streaming service to offer this functionality.
More to Prime
Amazon Prime is an annual membership program for $99 a year that offers
customers unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on more than 20 million items
across all categories, unlimited Free Same-Day Delivery on more than a
million items in 14 metro areas, unlimited streaming of tens of
thousands of movies and TV episodes, more than one million songs, more
than one thousand playlists and hundreds of stations with Prime Music,
early access to select Lightning Deals all year long, free secure,
unlimited photo storage in Amazon Cloud Drive with Prime Photos and
access to more than 800,000 books to borrow with the Kindle Owners’
Lending Library. In addition, Prime members in 11 U.S. cities receive
one and two hour delivery on a selection of tens of thousands of
everyday essentials with the dedicated Prime Now mobile app. This one
day discount will start on Friday, September 25 at 12:00 a.m. ET and end
at 11:59 p.m. PT. New members can sign up for this limited-time Prime
offer at Amazon.com/TransparentPrime
About Amazon
Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The company is
guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor
focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and
long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized
recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct
Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are
some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon.
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